From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12466 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Double bar means hyphen? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030613171213.A3372@atlas.cs.uga.edu> References: <200306131531.41973.john@wexfordpress.com> <20030613145053.145e7e27.wmcclain@salamander.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055538485 21518 80.91.224.249 (13 Jun 2003 21:08:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Fri Jun 13 23:08:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Qvlr-0005Ze-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:07:39 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1CE10B28; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:10:16 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from ajax.cs.uga.edu (ajax.cs.uga.edu [128.192.251.3]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717C710AB6 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:06:52 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from atlas.cs.uga.edu (atlas [128.192.251.4]) by ajax.cs.uga.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17612 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:06:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from cashin@localhost) by atlas.cs.uga.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03580 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030613145053.145e7e27.wmcclain@salamander.com>; from wmcclain@salamander.com on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:50:53PM -0500 Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12466 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12466 On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:50:53PM -0500, wmcclain@salamander.com wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:41 -0400 > John Culleton wrote: > > > In some of the sample texts that come with Context (Zapf etc.) the > > double bar is used to indicate a hyphen, perhaps an unbreakable > > hyphen. In pdftex it translated to an em? dash instead. > > > > Is this combination documented somewhere? || > > The default is supposed to be an en-dash, but this can be changed. See > section 7.8 "Composed words" in "ConTeXt the Manual". I always use explicit hyphen like this: Don't second|-|guess me. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/